Pylon
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Pylon may refer to:
Structures
- Aircraft pylon, a horizontal structure used to mount external equipment such as engines and weapons ("stores") externally on an aircraft; it attaches to hardpoint(s) on the aircraft
- Pylon (architecture), the gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple or Christian cathedral
- Pylon, a support structure for suspension bridges or highways - see transportation support tower
- Electricity pylon, or transmission tower, a steel lattice tower used to support an overhead power line
Marker
- Traffic pylon, or traffic cone, a cone-shaped marker that is placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic
- An orange marker designating one of four corners of an American football end zone
Entertainment
- Pylon (band), a rock band from Athens, Georgia, USA named after the William Faulkner novel of the same name
- Pylon (novel), a 1935 novel by the American author William Faulkner
- Pylon (album), a 2015 album by Killing Joke
Other
- Pylons project, a set of open source web application frameworks written in Python
- Pylon Peak (disambiguation) for mountains by this name
- Pylon turn, a flight maneuver in which an aircraft banks into a circular turn around a fixed spot on the ground
- Pylon is the proprietary name for GenICam software from Basler
See also
- Pylos
- All pages beginning with "Pylon"
- All pages with titles containing Pylon
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